Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of death in the United States.
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Ventricular fibrillation is the most commonly observed rhythm disturbance in the
early stages of cardiac arrest
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and is often provoked by acute myocardial ischemia.
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,
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To address the issue of mechanical reperfusion therapy in the setting of OHCA, we
undertook a retrospective study at our center of all patients successfully resuscitated
from ventricular fibrillation OHCA in whom urgent coronary angioplasty was performed
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
February 27,
2003
Received in revised form:
February 27,
2003
Received:
November 13,
2002
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